Update: vB5 has been officially released, but unfortunately there are still
many features missing from 5.0.0 that they're now promising in 5.0.1. I'd expect that to be released soon considering the amount of complaints in their
feedback forum, but I don't have any dates. I'll just list the ones that are particularly necessary for our upgrade:
Major (for our purposes):
Infraction / Warning System - To be restored in 5.0.1
Paid Subscriptions. - No functionality on the front end for a user to purchase paid subscriptions. - To be reimplemented in 5.0.1
Members List - (Who's Online)
More importantly, they're still working out a lot of bugs in their API system. We rely on this to implement existing and new custom functionality. I'm surprised they released it this way tbh.
Minor (we'll need it, but we can launch without it):
CMS - The vBulletin CMS is being rewritten. Information will be maintained in a Channel.
Calendar & Events - Held back to improve quality.
Statistics - Statistic tracking in the Admin CP. New registrations, new posts, new threads, etc…
Notifications Popup - Currently a link is provided that takes you to a "Messages" page. There is no dropdown showing what kind of nofitications you received so you can't prioritize workflow.
Go To Last Post
Find all Posts by User - Pretty important to track down spammers and scammers.
In any case, we're going to set up a development version of the new forum soon. Once we're finished with it, we'll start inviting a few members for feedback.